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Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
The NAWSA Collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. They are a subset of the Library's larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in November of 1938. The collection includes works from the libraries of other members and officers of the organization including: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Mary A. Livermore
Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
Panoramic Photographs (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
Panoramic Photographs (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
The Panoramic Photograph Collection contains approximately four thousand images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. These panoramas offer an overview of the nation, its enterprises and its interests, with a focus on the start of the twentieth century when the panoramic photo format was at the height of its popularity. Subject strengths include: agricultural life; beauty contests; disasters; engineering work such as bridges, canals and dams; fairs and expositions; military and naval activities, especially during World War I; the oil industry; schools and college campuses, sports, and transportation. The images date from 1851 to 1991
Panoramic Photographs (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
Progress and Poverty by Henry George (Book)
Progress and Poverty by Henry George (Book)
Full text of book. In Progress and Poverty, George examines various proposed strategies to prevent business depressions, unemployment and poverty, but finds them unsatisfactory. As an alternative he proposes his own solution: a single tax on land values
Progress and Poverty by Henry George (Book)
Nature and the Environment - Themed Resources - For Teachers (Library of Congress)
Nature and the Environment - Themed Resources - For Teachers (Library of Congress)
Study man-made and natural disasters, the origins of the American conservation movement, and view Landsat photographs, valued for aesthetics more than their contributions to geography. Use maps to trace the growth and unique features of the National Parks. Learn about nature writers and visual artists. from the Library of Congress
Nature and the Environment - Themed Resources - For Teachers (Library of Congress)
Berea College v. Kentucky (1908)
Berea College v. Kentucky (1908)
Can a private college in Kentucky accept both white and black students? The state of Kentucky said "No", and the Supreme Court upheld that law. In this decision, the Supreme Court upheld a Kentucky law entitled "An Act to Prohibit White and Colored Persons from Attending the Same School". Although Plessy v Ferguson gets most of the attention, this case also serves well to give students a better appreciation of the nature of discrimination before the modern Civil Rights movement.
Berea College v. Kentucky (1908)
1906 Earthquake and Fire
1906 Earthquake and Fire
Excellent resource on turn of the century cities and disaster recovery. Many primary documents from police reports and eyewitness accounts to scientific journals and railway records. Be sure to look through the photographs. From the Virtual Museum of the city of San Fransisco
1906 Earthquake and Fire